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| | |  | | | Chen Hsueh-Sheng, head of the Lianjian County, welcomes a visiting press delegation from Fujian Province at the dock of Matsu Island Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004. It's the first time that a press delegation from the mainland pays a visit to the island. | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | 14,603 Tai Chi enthusiasts set a world record for the largest demonstration of the ancient Chinese martial arts in front of the National Theatre at the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall park in Taipei November 23, 2003. The previous record was set by 10,425 Tai Chi practitioners in Hong Kong on December 2, 2001. [Reuters] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Participants of an anti-independence demonstration hold banners to call for a united Chinese nation in Taipei, September 7, 2003. [newsphoto] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Taiwanese passengers disembark the ¡°Oriental Star¡± after arriving at Xiamen Port in East China¡¯s Fujian Province from Kinmen, Taiwan Province, July 18, 2003. Nonstop voyages between the two ports resumed Friday after a 59-day pause caused by the SARS outbreak. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Taiwanese singer A Do holds the award for Best New Artist of the Year Taiwan, at the CCTV-MTV Music Awards in Beijing Friday, Sept. 12, 2003. [AP] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A scene of clouds and ridges on a peak of Ali Mountain in Taiwan. Ali Mountain traverses the island from the north to the south. [www.chinataiwan.org] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Night scene of a street in Taipei, capital of Taiwan Province.[www.chinataiwan.org] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | An overview on the Palace Museum, former known as the Sun Yet-Sen Museum, in Taipei, Taiwan Province. | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | An overview on the Sun Moon Lake, one of most famous scenic reservoirs on the island. [www.chinataiwan.org] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Huang Zhizhong, a college student from Taiwan's Shih Hsin University speaks at a debate on environmental protection during the second cross-Straits debating competition for college students. The competition began August 13, 2003 in Fuzhou, East China's Fujian Province. The debate was attended by 27 students from six Chinese mainland colleges and 28 from six Taiwan colleges. [newsphoto.com.cn]
| | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Strong winds from Typhoon Dujuan uproot a large tree in Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan, September 2, 2003. The fast-moving storm, packing gusts of up to 190 kilometers per hour and one of the strongest typhoons to hit Taiwan this year, killed one person and left another missing on the island before heading towards Hong Kong and the south Chinese mainland coast. [Reuters] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A masked fast food restaurant employee stands outside to take the temperatures of all customers in Taipei on May 14, 2003. The Taiwan authorities, struggling to contain the world's third-most severe outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), has ordered all workers in the food industry to wear masks. [Reuters] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Taiwan | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Vice-Minister of Health Gao Qiang (R) meets Director General of Taiwan Province's Center of Disease Control, Dr. Ih-Jeb after the opening of the WHO's first global conference on SARS in Kuala Lumpur on June 17, 2003. About 1,300 scientists, medical experts and public health officials are expected to participate in the two-day conference. [Reuters] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Taipei Tao Chiang Nursing and Home Economics High School student Sanlin Lu (C) poses after she won a "surgical mask beauty contest" in Taipei on May 26, 2003. Taiwan breathed a sigh of relief over the weekend when the head of the cabinet's committee in charge of fighting Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) said the spread of the disease was under control and told citizens to resume normal life. [Reuters] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A new car design, to be put into production by the Taiwan-invested Southeast Auto Co next year, draws visitors' attention at the 2003 Cross-Straits Scientific and Technological Achievements Fair & Conferences on Economy and Trade in Fuzhou on Sunday. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Liu Peilong, director of the Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao affairs department under the Ministry of Health, answers reporters' questions on severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) Friday at a news conference in Beijing. Liu urged medical workers across the Taiwan Straits to join hands in the fight against SARS. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Taiwan travelers from Jinmen Island wearing masks debark at a ferry dock Wednesday in Xiamen, a coastal city in Southeastern China's Fujian Province. Local officials said that more than 90 per cent travelers from Taiwan wore masks to protect themselves from the severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. [newsphoto.com.cn]
| | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | An Airbus 340-300 of Taiwan's China Airline prepares to take off from Chiang Kai-Shek International Airport in southwest of Taipei Wednesday. The biggest airline of the island said Wednesday it has received Beijing's approval to allow its Europe-bound flights to fly through mainland airspace to avoid the Mideast during the Iraq war. It's the first time in more than five decades that Taiwanese aircraft are allowed to fly over Chinese mainland. [AP] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Hong Kong singer-actress Gigi Leung (R) performs with Ken Zhu, a member of Taiwan pop group F4', during Leung's concert in Hong Kong March 14, 2003. Leung recently appeared in the movie "Turn Left, Turn Right", the first ever Chinese language film by Warner Bros., a film based on the best-selling illustrated love story by Taiwanese artist-author Jimmy Liao. [Reuters] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A mother from Taiwan battles with the wind, rain and luggage on arrival in Xiamen in East China's Fujian Province yesterday, after spending the Spring Festival in Taiwan. Her husband owns a cold storage plant in Zhangzhou of Fujian Province. Xiamen is experiencing a peak period of passengers from Taiwan these days. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Workers check computer monitors at a Taiwanese-owned BenQ (IT) Co., Ltd. plant in Suzhou, 80-km (50 miles) away from Shanghai January 21, 2003. China's online population rose to 59.1 million at the end of 2002, replacing Japan's 56 million as the world's second largest but still far behind the United States with about 170 million internet users. [Reuters] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Nick Chen, a Taiwanese working in Shanghai, books his charter flight ticket with Taiwan-based China Airlines on Friday to guarantee a speedy trip back to Taiwan for the Spring Festival holiday. Six Taiwan carriers have been given the go-ahead to provide unprecedented charter services, during the festival, for Taiwanese working or living in the Chinese mainland. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A Taiwanese man dressed as the traditional Chinese god of wealth displays a banner stating "Proud and Happy" at a Taipei brokerage on February 6,2003, to mark the reopening of the stock market after the week-long Chinese New Year holiday. The man was hired to bring luck for local businesses in the new lunar year. [Reuters]
| | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Taiwanese passengers walk through Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek International Airport after disembarking from a China Airlines Boeing 747-400 shortly after it touched down from Shanghai's Pudong Airport on Januray 26, 2003. The flight, the first Taiwanese aircraft permitted to land on the mainland since 1949, carried 243 passengers and crew members. [Reuters] | | | | | | | | | |
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